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Tarifa is a city on the strait. The report found in al-Maqqari attributes it to Tarif al-Barbari, client of Musa ibn Nusayr, who raided it with the help of Yulyan, lord of Ceuta. It is also said that it was Tarif ibn Malik al-Nakha'i, who settled there within the conquest of Tariq ibn Ziyad. It was the first of the Andalusian frontier posts that the Muslims trod, before the great conquest. ¹

أبو الحسن المريني سلطان المغرب

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Uthman al-Marini, sultan of the Maghreb, who styled himself amir al-mu'minin, 'sultan of the two shores, guardian of both banks'; he copied three noble mushafs in his own hand for the three mosques to which journeys are made, endowed waqfs on them whose titulature the great chancery writer Ibn Nubata composed, and sent al-Nasir Muhammad 325 great rubies, 128 emeralds and 128 zabarjads — al-Maqqari himself saw the Jerusalem copy in finest workmanship; he ruled ten years and seven days before his son Abu Inan deposed him.

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أبو الحسن المريني سلطان المغرب